Tustna is an
island
An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...
in
Aure Municipality in
Møre og Romsdal county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
. The island lies in the western part of the municipality. The island of Tustna lies west of the islands of
Stabblandet and
Solskjelsøya; to the northeast of the islands of
Frei and
Nordlandet; and south of the island of
Smøla. The
Edøyfjorden runs along the northern shores of the island, the
Vinjefjorden (and
Halsafjorden) are to the south, the
Freifjorden is to the southwest, the
Talgsjøen
Talgsjøen is a strait or fjord in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The strait is located between the island of Tustna (island), Tustna in Aure Municipality in the northeast, several islands in Kristiansund Municipality to the southwest, and the ...
is to the west, and the open
Norwegian Sea is to the northwest.
The island of Tustna and surrounding islands was part of the old
Tustna Municipality from 1 January 1874 until 1 January 2006, when it was merged into Aure Municipality. The main population centers on the island are
Tømmervåg on the western coast,
Leira on the northern coast, and
Gullstein on the eastern coast. The island is connected to the neighboring island of Stabblandet in the east by a bridge at the village of Tustna, and there is a
ferry connection from Tømmervåg across the
Talgsjø channel to the
town of Kristiansund. There is another ferry connection from the northern coast of Tustna to the island of
Edøya in
Smøla Municipality.
In 2015, the island had 822 residents living on it.
Name
The island is named ''Tustna'' (the
Old Norse
Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...
form of the name may have been ). The name of the island was mentioned in historical records, as ''Toester'', on a Dutch map from 1623. The name may be derived from the word which means "staff" or "walking stick". They could be referring to the form of one of the mountains on the island.
Historically, the name was spelled ''Tusteren''. On 3 November 1917, a
royal resolution changed the spelling of the name of the island (and municipality) to ''Tustna''.
See also
*
List of islands of Norway
References
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Islands of Møre og Romsdal
Aure, Norway